No person shall be employed by the city after having reached the age of seventy (70)
years. No person, including the fire chief and police chief, employed in the classified
services of the police and fire department of the city, pursuant to the provisions
of Article 1269m, Texas Civil Statutes (commonly known as the Firemen's and Policemen's
Civil Service Act), shall continue to be employed in said departments after having
reached the age of sixty-five (65) years unless such person has been certified to
be physically qualified to perform the same duties required of all persons of the
same rank in the fire or police department, as the case may be. Any employee in the
fire or police departments who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older shall furnish
annually a similar physical-qualification certification prior to reaching his sixty-sixth,
sixty-seventh, sixty-eighth and sixty-ninth birthdays in order to remain employed
in said departments. All physical-qualification certifications shall be certified
to by a duly licensed physician not earlier than thirty (30) days prior to the employee's
reaching each of said birthdays. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed
to affect any pension fund provision, employee retirement benefit or computation thereof.
